Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 2/28/2002
Launch site: Naval Air Station Tillamook, Oregon, US
Balloon launched by: Global Solutions for Science and Learning (GSSL) Inc.
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon 363 m3
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 2/28/2002
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 4 h 45 m
Engineering Tests; Orbcomm communications, thermal control & evaluation, altitude control manual ballasting
External references
- The driftsonde observing system development 13th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, June 2005
Images of the mission
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